Lester Golden
6 min readJul 17, 2024

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Just as Trump is a one-man crime wave, you're a one-man social media pogrom of the same kind that nearly killed my then 8 year old paternal grandfather in 1903 in Kishinev. Here's the antidote to stubborn anti-semitic reality-denial:

Jewish sovereignty isn't negotiable, just as German, French, Italian,Spanish, British, American, Canadian, Aussie or other sovereignties are not negotiable. The IHRA definition of anti-semitism, which the Italian government you live under has accepted, says that anti-Zionism that singles out Jews for exclusion from the sovereignty club is anti-semitic. Since the Italian government accepts the IHRA definition that classifies such speech as anti-semitic, its statute that clearly bans hate speech clearly includes branding Jews as "Zionazis".

Italian law also bans "l'uso di strumenti informatici diventa un'aggravante quando viene utilizzato per compiere reati di terrorismo, istigazione e apologia del terrorismo.", which you've also broken. Hamas is a recognized terrorist organization, whose gleeful and ecstatic orgy of mass murder, torture, rape, genital mutilation and beheadings you've perversely defended as "resistance".

The days of weak, meek, submissive Jews living in European ghettos or Muslim supremacist dhimmitude are over forever. We will have our own state forever because, like all other sovereign states, Jews have the power to keep it. Get over it.

Jews, not Gentiles, decide Jewish identity. Period. This is just as non-negotiable for Jews as it is with Italians who decide Italian identity, Danes who decide Danish identity and Finns who decide Finnish identity. Gentiles inventing Jewish identity is double standards anti-semitic selective sovereignty exclusion. Apply no standards to Jews you wouldn't apply to other nations.

Jews are a nation and a religion. I'm a prosciutto and lobster-loving proud Zionist atheist as capable of religious feeling as a rock is of getting pregnant. I'm still just as Jewish as any Haredi.

Israel is an ethno-state. So are almost all European and Asian states and Israel's Arab and Persian neighbors, whose Muslim supremacist dhimmitude ethnically cleansed 99.83% of their Jewish communities. Singling out Israel as racist because it is what most states elsewhere are is anti-semitic.

Nazi-adjacent discussions of Ashkenazi DNA are anti-semitic idiocy, especially since 60–65% of Israeli Jews are Mizrahi or Sephardic descended from the Arab states that pogromed, persecuted and expropriated and ethnically cleansed their Jewish communities.

The Holocaust Inversion inherent to the term “Zionazi” breaks Italian law. https://medium.com/illumination-curated/closing-the-anti-zionism-loophole-15da2ab7bc8b

Holocaust Inversion’ involves an inversion of reality (the Israelis are cast as the ‘new’ Nazis and the Palestinians as the ‘new’ Jews), and an inversion of morality (the Holocaust is presented as a moral lesson for, or even a moral indictment of ‘the Jews’). More: those who object to these inversions are told — as they were by David Ward — that they are acting in bad faith, only being concerned to deflect criticism of Israel. In short, the Holocaust, an event accurately described by Dan Diner as a ‘rupture in civilisation,’ organised by a regime that, as the political philosopher Leo Strauss observed, ‘had no other clear principle except murderous hatred of the Jews,’ is now being used, instrumentally, as a means to express animosity towards the homeland of the Jews. ‘The victims have become perpetrators’ is being heard more and more. That is Holocaust Inversion.

THE INVERSION OF REALITY AND MORALITY

Clemens Heni, the German political scientist and director of the Berlin International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (BICSA), believes that the equation of Israel/the Jews/Zionism with Nazism amounts to an ‘inversion of truth’ which is used today as a form of ‘extremely aggressive anti-Jewish propaganda.’ Anthony Julius, author of a landmark study of British antisemitism, notes that Holocaust Inversion is becoming part of the iconography of a new antisemitism. Headlines such as ‘The Final Solution to the Palestine Question,’ references to the ‘Holocaust in Gaza,’ images of IDF soldiers morphing into jackbooted storm troopers, Israeli politicians morphing into Hitler, and the Star of David morphing into the Swastika, are all increasingly common. The 2009 Report of the European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, Understanding the ‘Nazi’ Card: Intervening against Anti-Semitic Discourse, reported that equating Israel with the Nazis is an important component of incitement and racial aggravation against Jews in the UK today…” “Holocaust Inversion, then, involves the abuse of the Holocaust memory to issue a moral stricture aimed at Israel and ‘the Jews’, imposing upon them a uniquely onerous moral responsibility and accountability in their treatment of others.”

"The subject of comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany and whether or not such comparisons are antisemitic has received much commentary by academics worldwide who have studied history and politics,[30] including those who have deemed it to be a form of Holocaust trivialization called "Holocaust inversion" due to the potential implication it minimizes the scope of Nazi crimes.[31]

Deborah Lipstadt, the U.S. Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism, has referred to comparisons between Nazi Germany and Israel as "soft-core" Holocaust denial, as contrasted with "hard-core" denial as practiced by David Irving, who sued Lipstadt in a celebrated legal case. She defines "soft-core denial" as "not denying the facts, but either inverting it so the victims become the perpetrators". She said in a 2009 interview that soft-core denial makes "a false comparison, and that dilutes what the Holocaust was. It’s a much more slippery kind of manifestation" than hard-core denial, she stated.[11]

According to Kenneth L. Marcus, the aim of those who employ Holocaust inversion is to "shock, silence, threaten, insulate, and legitimize. ... No one tells Holocaust survivors – or a nation of Holocaust survivors and their children – that they are Nazis without expecting to shock." Even when it is frequently used, the use of Holocaust inversion is still shocking, which facilitates its repeated use. He asserts that the tying together of Nazi motifs with Jewish conspiracy stereotypes has a chilling effect on Jewish supporters of Israel. He also says that by implying guilt, this discourse is threatening because it implies a required punishment. As this discourse is performed in the context of political criticism of Israel, it insulates those who use it from the resistance that most forms of racism face in post-World War II society. Finally, he states that inversion not only legitimizes anti-Israel activities but also legitimizes anti-Jewish activities that would otherwise be hard to conduct.[clarification needed] According to Bernard-Henri Lévy, this erodes societal safeguards allowing "people to feel once again the desire and, above all, the right to burn all the synagogues they want, to attack boys wearing yarmulkes, to harass large number of rabbis... in order for anti-Semitism to be reborn on a large scale."[32]

According to historian Bernard Lewis, the belief that the Nazis were no worse than Israel is has "brought welcome relief to many who had long borne a burden of guilt for the role which they, their families, their nations, or their churches had played in Hitler's crimes against the Jews, whether by participation or complicity, acquiescence or indifference."[31] In Austria, while overt antisemitism has been limited following the Holocaust, the Freedom Party of Austria is associated with using comparisons between Nazi Germany and Israel to delegitimize political opponents.[33]

According to Lustick, many Israelis are "already repelled by actions against Palestinians they cannot help but associate with Nazi persecution of Jews."[27] British scholar David Feldman argued that comparisons in relation to the 2014 Gaza War have not been motivated by a broader anti-Jewish subjectivity but by targeted criticism of Israeli policy in military actions.[3]

The Working Definition of Antisemitism, which was adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, the U.S. Department of State, and other organizations, has offered several examples in which criticism of Israel may be antisemitic, including "drawing comparison of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis."[34] This definition is controversial because of concerns that it could be seen as defining legitimate criticisms of Israel as antisemitic and has been used to censor pro-Palestinian activism. Alternative definitions such as the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism have been proposed.[35]

In an official statement, the Anti-Defamation League, an American social activist organization involved with the U.S. Jewish community, has declared that "[a]bsolutely no comparison can be made between the complex Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the atrocities committed by the Nazis against the Jews" given that "[w]hile one can criticize Israel's treatment of the Palestinians, in contrast to the Holocaust, there is not now, nor has there been, a significant Israeli ideology, movement, policy or plan to exterminate the Palestinian population." The statement also labeled comparisons inherently antisemitic.[36]

Critics of such comparisons like Lesley Klaff and Bernard-Henri Lévy argue that such comparisons not only lack historical and moral equivalence but also risk inciting anti-Jewish sentiment.[31][10] Klaff also see equating Israel with Nazis as a form of incitement and racial aggravation against Jews.[10] According to genocide researcher Eyal Levin, Holocaust Inversion is becoming part of the iconography of a new antisemitism. This phenomenon, according to Levin, has spread globally, particularly in the Arab and Muslim world and also become prevalent in Western Europe and America, often appearing in what he considers anti-Israel demonstrations and media portrayals.[37]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparisons_between_Israel_and_Nazi_Germany#Debate_on_whether_comparisons_are_antisemitic

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Lester Golden
Lester Golden

Written by Lester Golden

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.

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